United Nations in Yemen

United Nations in Yemen

United Nations in Yemen

A message from Yemeni women on International Women's Day 2018

UN Women

About the Video

“A message from Yemeni women on International Women's Day 2018,” is a one-minute video produced by the Yemeni Women’s Pact for Peace and Security (YWP) on the occasion of International Women's Day 2018. The video highlights the impact of the war in Yemen and shares the hopes of YWP members that the lives of rural and urban women can be transformed through peace. UN Women Yemen serves as the secretariat for the 60 women who are volunteer members from diverse political, civil society and geographic sectors of Yemeni society. The YWP was established in 2015 and is supported by the governments of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands and the film was also supported by the European Union.

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UN WOMEN, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace, and security.